Team GB dive king Jack Laugher's girlfriend says she is 'not worried' by the sudden interest in her gold medalist boyfriend - who she met a year ago on Tinder.

Hunky Jack and his 'super hot' dive partner Chris Mears took Team GB's gold tally to three when they won Wednesday night's nerve jangling three-metre synchronised diving - taking gold in the green pool.

Twitter went into meltdown over the divers' good looks and muscular bodies with viewers asking if the athletes are single and whether they are gay.

But make-up artist Jessica Auty says she is proud of the attention Jack is getting - and said everyone thinks Jack and Chris are gay because they live together, have a mortgage and are such good mates.

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'I have known Jack for a year,' Jessica told MailOnline. 'It’s a bit embarrassing , but we met on Tinder where you have to swipe to the right if you like someone's pictures and left if you don't. It is quite brutal and mostly on looks but that’s how we were matched.

'But he hadn’t put anything on his profile about what he did. We'd been out two or three times, but I had no idea he was a diver let alone an Olympian.

'It was only when he started following me on Twitter that I saw from his profile that he was was an Olympic athlete.

'I was quite confused and I was like, “what’s all this about?”.

‘He had his clothes on in his Tindr pictures so there were no clues. It was just pictures of him with his dog which is a Lurcher.

‘There was nothing about himself. He was Jack, 21. He just seemed a really genuine person and that is what I love about him.

'I really liked the fact that he didn’t brag about himself. He is a really honest, down-to-earth person who gets on with their job because that is how he sees diving.

'He is not interested in the fame side of things. He just wants to do the best he can, make his family proud and inspire younger people. I have a young niece and nephew who simply adore him.'

The divers, who both have girlfriends, saw their fanbase rocket after both appeared in photoshoots for Gay Times to voice their support for the LGBT community - particularly those involved in sport

Mears, 23, almost died in January 2009 after contracting the deadly Epstein Barr virus. He collapsed with a ruptured spleen and lost five pints of blood as he battled to survive - falling into a coma. He is an aspiring DJ with a huge fanbase

Of all the attention Jack and Chris are getting and their 'bro-mance', she went on: 'I'm not worried. He just takes at all in his stride. I wouldn't say he's used to it, but he would love to know he has inspired some people.

'People are always assuming [Laugher and Mears] are a couple because they spend so much time together.

‘I get on with Chris. We all get along. Chris has his own life. He does a lot of DJ-ing and record producing. We all get along perfectly.

'They are just the best of friends. They have very similar personalities and they love watching The Mighty Boosh and things like that. I don’t mind it, I stay out of it. I keep myself to myself.

'I really don’t mind it. I tend not to get involved with all the things people are saying on social media. I don’t want to get involved in that side of it.'

‘We are both very quiet people. We tend to only go out for meals and are most likely to be getting a takeaway and watching Netflix. Jack's hobby is his Play Station.

‘Winning gold was more of a hope or a dream. The Chinese had been winning everything but they kept their composure and when the Chinese did drop a couple of dives they were able to take advantage.

‘I was just hoping that the pressure wouldn’t get to him

'They train twice a day, six days a week. He also does out of hours stuff like Physio and Psychology. He always has something to do. It is really full on.

‘I don’t think a gold medal will change him. He'll still be the same down to earth person but now he has achieved what he set out to do and made his family proud. He’ll be no different.

The aspiring DJ - who has released a single in Mexico - posted this picture on Instagram with Nicole Scherzinger with the caption 'So good hanging with this one again! Don't want to leave'

Mexican boyband CD9 welcomed Olympian and aspiring DJ Chris Mears (third from left) as their sixth member when he visited Mexico. The band congratulated him on his medal win. He posted this image to Instagram with the caption 'annual reunion with my brothers'

‘I do not know what the future holds but I hope he’ll be in Japan in 2020. If he does well and enjoys it than that is the main thing.

‘I’ve never tried it. I wouldn’t dare. I’m more of an athletics person myself.

‘I spoke to him very briefly after he won Gold just to tell him that I love him and are proud of him. My family love him. Everyone is just delighted for him.

‘I don’t mind him posing for Gay Times. If that’s what he has to do then fine.'

She continued: 'He has sort of lived a little bit under the radar, but his life is going to completely change now. It's going to be amazing for him.

'I can't tell you how proud I am. I can't imagine how his parents must feel.'

The 21-year-old from Mirfield, West Yorkshire, said she had told her boyfriend she was working so wouldn't be able to watch her performance 'to try not to put any pressure on him'.

She said: 'Whenever he does any world series, I tell him I'm not watching so he doesn't have that extra pressure.

'When he texted me to tell me, I texted back saying "I know, I've been watching".'

Taking the plunge: Laugher and Mears were at the top of the leaderboard throughout much of the event and were on top at the end after six solid dives

There was rapturous applause in the diving arena as Mears and Laugher (centre, next to the American and Chinese teams) stepped up to collect their medals, with British supporters chanting: 'Team GB!'

Gold in the green: The pair - from Leeds - were not distracted by the bizarrely murky pool as they won the gold medal

The British pair (pictured) led throughout much of the competition - fighting off their American and Chinese rivals

Meanwhile achieving Britain's first ever gold medal in Olympic diving marks the culmination of Mears' remarkable journey to the top of his sport after nearly dying from a deadly virus seven years ago.

The illness led to the rupture and removal of his spleen, awaking from a coma to compete at London 2012.

And the aspiring DJ has also found time to secure a record deal with Universal, releasing his debut single Mexico in Latin America last year.

But last night it was clear Mears was thinking only of his sporting success. After learning of his stunning victory, the diver grabbed 21-year-old Laugher, his flatmate and best mate, and pumped the air with joy.

The pair - who are so close they have a joint mortgage on their flat in Leeds - were also congratulated on their success by Mexican boyband CD9, who said: 'Congrats buddy #Gold #Rio2016 #Olympics'

Mears, who has clearly been brushing up on his language skills, replied in Spanish: 'Thank you! I'll be back soon to return as the sixth member of CD9!'

Speaking from Rio today, Mears said he was so proud of himself and his teammate - and even said the 'swamp pool' helped them to glory. Asked about the green water, he told ITV: 'It didn't taste any different - because obviously accidentally you do kind of drink some of the water!

'It kind of helped in a way because when you're spinning around sometimes when you're seeing a blue sky and a blue pool it can be quite difficult, but with a green pool it was pretty easy!'

The divers saw their fanbase rocket after both appeared in photoshoots for Gay Times to voice their support for the LGBT community - particularly those involved in sport.

Their gold is Britain's first ever in an Olympic diving event - and comes just two days after Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow won bronze in the 10m synchronised dive.

After waking up from a coma in the hospital, Mears dreamed of competing in the Olympics. Now he and teammate Jack Laugher are Olympic gold medallists

Aspiring DJ Chris Mears released his first single 'Mexico' in Latin America, and has joked about being the sixth member of a boy band in the country

Boyband CD9 congratulated Mears on he and Laugher's gold medal win last night, and he replied in Spanish that he'd be visiting to rejoin the band soon

Mears and Laugher were forced to endure a nervous wait for the Chinese divers' last attempt to find out whether they had secured Britain's third gold medal in Rio, but were overjoyed after the judges declared them the winners.

The British pair led throughout much of the competition - beating their American and Chinese rivals over six dives.

OLYMPIAN'S PROUD DAD

The proud dad of Olympic gold medal winner Jack Laugher, David Laugher, 57, said today: 'I am so proud of them both and they deserved the win because they were consistently brilliant.

Speaking from his home in Littlethorpe, North Yorks., this morning, Mr Laugher said: 'One of my assignments this week is to go to his flat and put up his medal bar, it's basically a bar attached to the wall that you can display medals on.

'It used to be up at our house until he moved, but he never out it back up again, so its going up this weekend.'

David also revealed that there were empty picture frames in the flat that Jack and Chris share in Leeds : 'There are also four empty picture frames on their settee I think they wanted to fill.' Mr Laugher didn't travel to Rio with is wife Jacqueline, 52, and daughter Katherine, 20, for several reasons - the cost, looking after the family dog and the fear of making his son nervous.

He said: 'Jack prefers me not to be there at competitions as it makes him very nervous, so I didn't want to put any extra pressure on him being there.'

There was rapturous applause in the diving arena as Mears and Laugher stepped up to collect their medals, with British supporters chanting: 'Team GB!'

The pair - from Leeds - were not distracted by the bizarrely green pool, or by the farcical events that struck the Mexican diving duo.

The Mexicans were halfway through jumping off the three-metre springboard when the lights were switched on in the diving arena.

Controversy followed as the pair climbed back up to the board and tried to jump again - only for the referee to tell them to get back down and accept they had ruined their final dive.

China had won every diving gold in Rio until this event. Chinese pair Qin Kai and Cao Yuan's poor final jump saw them slip down to third.

Mears, 23, almost died in January 2009 after contracting the deadly Epstein Barr virus.

He collapsed with a ruptured spleen and lost five pints of blood as he battled to survive - falling into a coma.

After waking and leaving hospital a month later, he dreamt of competing at the Olympic games - a dream he realised tonight by taking gold.

Asked about his near-death experience, Mears said: 'It is something that I don't think about too much now... I still can't really believe it has happened.

'When I went into London and competed really well there, that was really emotional for me because of what has happened to me. London kind of changed me as a person and I became a bit more mature and stuff for this Games and I was in a different position to get medals.

'I have come from deaths door to here, so yeah, I am pretty proud. The dream has happened. We are ecstatic at how we have done.'

Today he told ITV: 'It will be a moment in time that will never be forgotten. Especially there with my best mate Jack. We're really close and it was an incredible feeling to win that medal. We live together, we've got a mortgage together, and I think that gives us a competitive advantage because we're so close and so in sync with everything.'

Revealing how he focuses before an event and the moment before a dive, Chris explained, 'We both have individual routines, and listen to music and warm up, and then our coaches will give us a few comments about the dive or whatever we're about to do, and then we basically go up there and do it. I literally just think about one word - I'm a basic guy and I'll get confused otherwise! It can be different on each dive, a key word, things like 'arms' which [reminds] me about the position of my arms.'

Mears has previously revealed the dedication the pair had put in training to achieve their goal.

US diver Michael Hixon (pictured) smashed the water and celebrated after his final dive tonight - only for him and Sam Dorman to finish second overal, behind the Brits

Gold: Laugher and Mears snatched victory from the Americans and Chinese after putting in a spectacular performance

Dive kings: The British gold medal-winning pair put in an outstanding set of six dives, which were enough to claim victory

He said: 'We have been looking pretty damn good in training. As you can see the conditions are a big thing here, one minute you can be diving in sunshine then it's cloudy and then it's raining and really windy - so there are a lot of factors that I think that can throw people off.

'But we just stayed in our zone. We didn't know how many points we needed because we weren't concentrating on that. All I concentrated on was landing on my head on my dive and I did that. And so did Jack so we came out on top.'

Laugher said: 'It's fantastic to win Britain's first Olympic gold in diving. We only found out that it was the first gold medal [for TeamGB in diving] before the podium.

'It's one of the first on springboard as well so we're so overwhelmed with what we've done, what we've done this year, especially with all the setbacks and with the massive risk of putting in that hard dive into our list.

'The dreams happened and it's paid off and we're ecstatic with how we've done. We are really proud to do this for Great Britain.'

Laugher added that the strange green-coloured water had helped them to victory.

He said: ''The green water, we have been assured that it is safe and we quite enjoyed it actually, it's different from normal but it's easy to see and I suppose it helped us really.'

Laugher, centre left, and Mears, centre right, laugh after being presented with their gold medals following their win

Mears (right, with Laugher), 23, almost died in January 2009 after contracting the deadly Epstein Barr virus

Mears - whose mother died when he was a toddler - has the support of his father, Paul, and stepmother, Katy (pictured together), as well as a legion of supporters

Mears - who has a younger brother, Charlie, and older sister, Natalie - lost his mother to breast cancer when he was a toddler.

He has the support of his father, Paul, and stepmother, Katy, as well as a legion of supporters.

The divers' fanbase sky rocketed after he appeared on the front of Gay Times to voice his support for the LGBT community - particularly those involved in sport.

Mears joked that he was trying to 'trying to steal' Tom Daley's gay fans by taking part in the shoot.

The diver - who is also a music producer - wrote a 'goodbye' note to his girlfriend after a plane he was travelling on in 2014 was suddenly engulfed by smoke, however the aircraft made an emergency landing and all passengers escaped unscathed.

Laugher, 21, also did a photoshoot for Gay Times, in 2013, but said he was straight.

The gold medal-winning diver said in an interview with the magazine: 'Any sport you should be able to be openly gay in. I have quite a few gay friends, just from school and people I've met through diving and my journey. Everyone should feel comfortable to be gay and be who they are.'

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